According to its apparently dubious charter, the royal House of Habsburg emerged from an obscure canton in present-day Switzerland in the early 11th century—several decades before the Norman conquest ...

The Habsburgs. By Martyn Rady. Allen Lane; 416 pages; £30. To be published in America by Basic Books in August; $32. THERE WERE early hints that the union of Philip of Habsburg with Juana the Mad ...

The Habsburgs, Europe’s most durable, powerful dynastic family, held sway from the late Middle Ages till the end of WWI, ruling lands that now comprise 19 modern countries. Penguin UK editor Winder ...

Explore the significant influence of the Habsburg dynasty over the Holy Roman Empire, Spain, the Netherlands, and much of the Western Hemisphere in this episode. We examine how their obsession with ...

From the 13th century till the end of World War I, a Habsburg ruled the Austro-Hungarian Empire with Vienna as its capital city. For a couple of centuries, another branch of the family ruled the ...

On this episode of American Prestige, Natasha Wheatley on the transformation of the Habsburg Empire from a multinational collection of polities to discrete nation-states. Derek Davison and Daniel ...

The MIA’s most impressive show of this year is an astonishing collection of masterworks that spans more than 600 years of European history. The Habsburg dynasty ruled much of central Europe from the ...